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If you've always thought history was boring – Read More! When history books record the reigns of kings and queens of England, we are presented with dry bones – facts and dates of their various reigns and very little.
Now you can know exactly what these kings and queens England tick and also learn about the strange and bizarre things they got up to.
George II – King who took his anger out on her wig!
When George II was cons or angry – which was often – his face turn crimson, his eyes Ardennes and will he pull his wig, stamp on it and then kick it in the room. It was a small, stout, vain, fussy and irritable, which is very not very attractive at all.
Queen Caroline (wife of George II) – and not a very loving mother!
Queen Caroline said her eldest son – Frederick Louis – "My dear firstborn is the greatest ass, and the biggest liar … and the more stupid the world and I wish with all my heart that he was beside himself. "
Tudor mummy – the queen who was indecently exposed for 200 years!
Queen Catherine de Valois – the wife of King Henry V died in January 1437. She was buried with great pomp and circumstance in Westminster Abbey, where, according the custom of the time, his wooden effigy was brought before his coffin.
When Henry VII was Buiding the main chapel in his coffin was and Catherine found battered body was placed in a wooden box and placed near his tomb Henry, where his "badly dressed 'state was left open to curiosity. She remained indecently exposed for 200 years and it was a game for boys school Westminster to steal pieces of his skin and bones.
She was buried in 1776, but it was not until 1878 that she obtained a final resting place in the chapel of Henry V.
Samuel Pepys noted in his journal that celebrates its 36th anniversary in 1669, when Catherine was dead for 200 years, he had made knees and kissed the lips Queen Catherine.
The Essex Ring
Elizabeth I is known to have had many favorites, but it is Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, whose name still lives with hers, although she was 33 years her senior. They say it gives him a ring that contained a portrait cameo itself as a testimony of gratitude for having defeated the Spanish at Cadiz. She told him if he ever was in danger or if he ever fell into disgrace with it, to send a reminder of the debt to him. Elizabeth signed her death warrant, hoping against hope (it is believed) that the ring would be returned. The captives Essex sent the ring from his cell in the Tower of London, but it is said that the jealous ceased delivery and the Queen has ever received.
He was executed February 25, 1601, on Tower Green in the Tower of London. Elizabeth said she cried for days, and became upset at the mere mention of his name for the rest of his life.
The "Essex Ring" was given to Elizabeth, three centuries too later and was placed under glass and let in the side of his grave. It was later removed and can be seen in the museum at the Abbey Westminster.
Spitting Queen!
In Elizabeth I anger was arbitrary, capricious, and passionate. When his blood was in place, she would swear like a trooper, spit on the velvet suit again courtier, beat her maids of honor, and box the ears of Essex. She wrote even abusive and profane letters to high dignitaries of the Church, and has openly insulted the wife of Archbishop Parker because she does not believe a married clergy.
Joanna of Castile – Joan the Mad
After Henry VII is a widower, he has played with the idea of marrying Joan of Castile – the richest woman in Europe (known as Joan the Mad), but abandoned the plan after discovering that the embalmed body of her first husband, Phillip, went everywhere with her.
The destruction of the Armada, 1588 – Speech of Elizabeth I.
When all danger was over, Elizabeth went to Tilbury on the Thames downstream from London, the journal of troops collected there to defend the capital. "I know," she said, I have the feeble body of a woman, but my heart is a king and a king of England too. "Unfortunately, the brave sailors of the Queen were hungry and many of them came at him to die.
This feature only highlights a few kings and queens of England and their strange habits and behaviors. It is King, who had stolen his jaw, the queen who suffered from indigestion, gout and intestinal problems that gave birth to 16 children – all those who died at birth …. and much, much more weird and wonderful tales for another time.
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